Hordes of Wuhan University students devour 25 kilograms of bugs

Around 300 students at Huazhong Agricultural University eagerly wolf down 25 kilos of bugs, including bamboo worms, grasshoppers and maggots. Event organizers hope the event will promote a greater appreciation of insects, which could be an increasingly important food source as the world population is projected to swell to 9 billion by 2050.We at Shanghaiist have already been gearing up for the ant-pocalypse.